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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

Superbosses can be fierce or gentle, belligerent or self-depreciating, but whatever their style, they do a much better job inspiring and teaching because they get in their trenches with protégés, leading by example and giving them personalized attention they require to move up quickly. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2015.

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Strategies for Succeeding in Today’s Brazil

Harvard Business Review

Now the business environment is downright gloomy—the economy is in recession, the country just lost its hard-won Standard & Poor’s investment-grade status ; its currency, the real, has depreciated to 12-year lows ; inflation is nearing 10% ; and talk of presidential impeachment has spread virally across mainstream media.

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Prospects for Emerging Markets Aren’t as Bad as You’ve Heard

Harvard Business Review

2015 will be the fifth consecutive year of slowing economic growth. A direct result has been depreciation in emerging market currencies. A direct result has been depreciation in emerging market currencies. 2015 will be the first year since the 1980s to see capital outflows from the emerging markets exceed capital inflows.

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Why Multinationals Are Doubling Down on Russia

Harvard Business Review

While the middle class has been eroded by currency depreciation and recession, the Russian consumer remains technologically savvy, interested in quality Western brands, and able to spend. A large local presence – particularly in manufacturing — can help insulate the business from the worst of the depreciation.

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The Success Delusion

Marshall Goldsmith

When it comes to the thoughts successful people hold in our heads, we are not self-depreciating, we are self-aggrandizing – and that’s a good thing! Marshall’s exciting new research on engagement will be published in his upcoming book Triggers (Crown, 2015). Without it, we wouldn’t be so excited about getting up in the morning.

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The Great Recession Drastically Changed the Skills Employers Want

Harvard Business Review

Moreover, the vast majority of this “upskilling” persists through the end of our sample in 2015. Consequently, in a short time period, large numbers of workers can find their skills depreciated and no longer relevant, with limited prospect of finding comparable reemployment.

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Investors Today Prefer Companies with Fewer Physical Assets

Harvard Business Review

Inventory depreciates and must be moved around. For further evidence of this, we examined the 2015 S&P 1500 Index , a mix of small-, medium-, and large-cap stocks, and separated the index based on industry sector according to FactSet’s industry classification. that companies own compared to other assets.